Sole means not shared with others. If it's your sole responsibility to make the chocolate cake for a party, it's all on you.
Any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus
Noun
right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European
Noun
the underside of footwear or a golfclub
Noun
the underside of the foot
Noun
lean flesh of any of several flatfish
Verb
put a new sole on; "sole the shoes"
n.
Any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus Solea
and allied genera of the family Soleidae, especially the common
European species (Solea vulgaris), which is a valuable food fish.
n.
Any one of several American flounders somewhat resembling the
true sole in form or quality, as the California sole (Lepidopsetta
bilineata), the long-finned sole (Glyptocephalus zachirus), and other
species.
n.
The bottom of the foot; hence, also, rarely, the foot itself.
n.
The bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which
constitutes the bottom.
n.
The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which
anything rests in standing.
n.
The bottom of the body of a plow; -- called also slade; also,
the bottom of a furrow.
n.
The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the
more tender parts.
n.
The bottom of an embrasure.
n.
A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder,
to make it even with the false keel.
n.
The seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to horizontal veins
or lodes.
v. t.
To furnish with a sole; as, to sole a shoe.
a.
Being or acting without another; single; individual; only.
a.
Single; unmarried; as, a feme sole.
Sole
Sole
The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.
Hast wandered through the world now long a day, Yet ceasest not thy weary soles to lead.2.
The "caliga" was a military shoe, with a very thick sole, tied above the instep.3.
Sole
Sole
He, be sure . . . first and last will reign Sole king.2.
Any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus
To furnish with a sole;
Being or acting without another; single; individual; only.
Usage Examples
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
The sole equality on earth is death.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.
After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
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